In which sentence is the word climbing a gerund? a. mr. herrera planted climbing ivy on the side of his house. b. the explorers were climbing up the steeply sloping mountain. c. the children enjoyed climbing on the playground equipment.

The sentence: (c.) The children enjoy climbing on the playground equipment, is a sentence that uses the word climbing as a gerund. That is because climbing is directly appointed or connected to the playground equipment. A gerund is a word that is in the form of verb but acting as a noun.

As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle fiercely above the island. none of the boys sees the explosions and flashes in the clouds because the twins sam and eric, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, have fallen asleep. during the battle, a parachutist drifts down from the sky onto the island, dead.